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The Blessed Soul (Italian: Anima Beata) is a bust by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Executed around 1619 it is a pendant piece to the Damned Soul. It is reckoned that they were both commissioned by Cardinal Montoya of whom Bernini also did a portrait bust. Their original location was sacristy of the church of San Giacomo degli Spagnuoli but they were then moved in the late 19th century and then to the Spanish Embassy to the Holy See in Piazza di Spagna.
